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Kilonovae of binary neutron star mergers leading to short-lived remnant neutron star formation.
- Source :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Nov2023, Vol. 525 Issue 3, p3384-3398, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- We study kilonova emission from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers for the case that a remnant massive neutron star (MNS) forms and collapses to a black hole within 20 ms after the onset of the merger (which we refer to as 'a short-lived case') by consistently employing numerical relativity and nucleosynthesis results. We find that such kilonovae are fainter and last shorter than those for BNSs resulting in the formation of long-lived (|${\gg} 1\, {\rm s}$|) MNSs, in particular in the optical band. The resulting light curves are too faint and last for a too short duration to explain the kilonova observation for the BNS associated with GW170817, indicating that the merger remnant formed in GW170817 is unlikely to have collapsed to a black hole within a short period of time (∼20 ms) after the onset of the merger. Our present result implies that early observation is necessary to detect kilonovae associated with BNSs leading to short-lived MNS formation in particular for the optical blue band as well as that kilonovae could be hidden by the gamma-ray burst afterglow for nearly face-on observation. We provide a possible approximate scaling law for near-infrared light curves with the given reference time and magnitude when the decline power of the z -band magnitude, d M<subscript>z</subscript> /dlog<subscript>10</subscript> t , reaches 2.5. This scaling law suggests that the HK -band follow-up observation should be at least 1 mag deeper than that for the z -band reference magnitude and earlier than 4 times the reference time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00358711
- Volume :
- 525
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 172286535
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2430